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On June 16, 2014, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its opening brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, requesting that the federal appeals court reverse two lower court decisions that permitted the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to censor the display of pro-Israel /…

  On May 22, 2014, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the City of Tulsa and two of its senior police officials, Chief of Police Chuck Jordan and Deputy Chief of Police Daryl Webster, did not violate…

Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2014) — Yesterday, in an opinion that relied upon irrelevant essays and anonymous comments posted on blogs, a three-judge panel in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board’s (TTAB) denial of the trademark application for “Stop…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral argument on May 8 in Priests for Life’s challenge to the HHS contraception mandate.  The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a national nonprofit Judeo-Christian law firm, is representing Priests for Life; Fr. Frank Pavone, the National Director of Priests…

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) is representing seven private citizens who were issued harassing subpoenas by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) because they publicly expressed their opposition to the construction of an Islamic center in their neighborhood in Pittsfield Township, Michigan. In 2012, the Muslim Community Association of…

On March 27, 2014, Federal Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, sitting in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, denied the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) motion for partial summary judgment in a lawsuit CAIR filed against the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and several of its employees, thereby…

Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a petition for en banc (full court) review with the Ninth Circuit, seeking review of a prior ruling by a three-judge panel which upheld a school district’s ban on the wearing of American flag shirts on a California high school campus during…

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its opening brief on Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, appealing a lower federal court ruling that denied AFLC’s motion for a preliminary injunction.  AFLC’s motion requested that the court order the King County, Washington, transit authority to…

Last Friday, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its reply to the Solicitor General’s response to AFLC’s “Petition for Writ of Certiorari” in the U.S. Supreme Court, which requests that the Court grant review of its case challenging the Obamacare contraception mandate. AFLC is representing Priests for Life, a…

The American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its opening brief last Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, asking the court to overturn a lower federal court’s dismissal of its case challenging the Obamacare contraception mandate.  The mandate forces certain non-exempt religious employers to authorize…